The creator of Pulp Fiction, one of the movies that defined mid nineties cinema, is back behind the camera again filming another WWII flick (I told you they were in vogue!). Inglourious Basterds is due next year and stars Mr Angelina Jolie himself Bradley Pitt.According to IMDB the plot goes something like this:
During World War II a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
It will be interesting to see if Pitt can channel his inner 'basterd' playing the Nazi-hunter out for vengeance. If he can, and I think we saw a glimpse of a potentially much grittier Brad Pitt in Babel, then he might well be a genius casting by Tarantino (let's not forget what Pulp Fiction did for John Travolta - who, just to digress momentarily, I met today ... more of that later in the week!).
Tarantino certainly isn't concerned with output as he has only directed five movies in the last 14 years and so I hope he is going to come out with another one for the ages and recapture the magic that created Reservoir Dogs (the only movie ever to make me leave a theater due to nausea over the 'ear' scene) and Pulp Fiction. I wasn't really a fan of the Kill Bill movies as they seemed contrived to me, over-stylized and frankly somewhat pointless. That said maybe just getting David Carradine and Darryl Hannah back up on the big screen was a good enough reason to make the two volumes.
One thing about Tarantino that you have to admire is his absolute unwavering love of talking pictures. I am a fan but my oh my is he a fan, the fervor that grips him when he is talking about anything cinematic is positively, well, fervent!
P.S Wasn't Babel a fantastic movie?!
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